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What does it mean to have a vocation? The term gets batted around both in religious and secular circles and…
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We tend to nurse a certain naiveté about what faith means in the face of death. The common notion among…
A friend of mine shares this story. She grew up with five siblings and an alcoholic father. The effect of…
In a remarkable book, The Inner Voice of Love, written while he was in a deep emotional depression, Henri Nouwen shares these…
The religious congregation to which I belong, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, has had a long relationship with the indigenous…
Jesus says that if we follow him, the cross, pain, will find us. That message is chronically misunderstood. Maybe we…
We live in a culture that idealizes youth and marginalizes the old. And, as James Hillman says, the old don’t…
There’s a huge difference between being bright and being wise, between brilliance and wisdom. We can be highly intelligent, but…
A number of years ago at a symposium on faith and evangelization, one of the speakers made a rather startling…
We wake up into life with the incurable sense that we’re special, that we’re the center of the universe. And,…
